Advertising device.



No. 7|2,223. Patented on. '28, I902.

E. WHITNEY. ADVERTISING DEVICE.

(Application filed June 7, 190m (No Model.) -2 Sheets-Shoat I.

WITNESSES:.

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No. 7|2,22s. Patented Oct. 28, I902.

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ADVERTISING DEVICE.

(Applichtion filed Jane 7, 1901;

"(No Model 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

WITNESSES: v I I INVENTOR' ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLINTON E. WHITNEY,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO.

FREDERICK B. SAGE AND LEVERETT H. SAGE, OF HAOKENSAOK, NEW

JERSEY.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,223, dated October 28, 1902. Application filed June 7,1901. Serial No- 63,508. (No model.

To a/M whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLINTON E. WHITNEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, county and State of New 5 York, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is a Specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel and attractive advertising device which may be combined with some useful device like a cigar-lighter, so arranged that the use of the lighter operates to shift or change the advertising device, and thus also attract and amuse.

: I provide a continuously-moving medium to which is attached a series of views, pictures, or optical effects. This medium is caused to gradually progress step by step across the field of an aperture like a pane .of

glass arranged in a screen, frame, or lid.

The progressive movement is produced by a ratchet and pawl operated by a spring-retracted arm or lever. A suitable weight, which may be a cigar-lighter, is supported on this arm so that its gravity extends the spring. When the weight is removed from the lever, the spring operates the pawl and ratchet and the views are advanced step by step with each replacement and removal of 0 the device described.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 is a front vertical elevation of the advertising device with the weight in its normal position. Fig. 2 is a view showing the mechanism, the screen or cover removed. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of Fig. 2. Fig. 4is a detail of the pawl and ratchet and its connection with the movable medium and operating-lever; and Fig. 5 is a view of the releasing device, showing its relation to the operating-lever. W

In Fig. 1 a is a wooden back board upon which the mechanism is fixed in position. 3

is a screen or cover having a window w of approximately the size of the visual effect, such as a picture which it is desired to present. The screen is hinged at 20 and when closed is hooked or bolted, as at 21. Upon the back board a I fix two sections of sheet metal, such as brass,

e and f. The opposite ends of these sheets are turned up at right angles and perforated to form bearings for the shafts at, y, and .2. There are two toothed wheels 22, fixed equidistant on each shaft w and y. Over each pair of wheels 22 runs an endless chain m, constituting the movable medium, upon which is fixed a series of separate views or pictures 1;. These views are about the size of the window w. The movable medium m is stepped along the width of a view v at each propulsive effort, so that the views in succession are presented at the window w.

b is a suitable weight. It may be an automatic electric cigar-lighter normally supported on the hooked arm 1'. By lifting the weightb the picture is changed at the window.

The mechanism for accomplishing this is con-.

structed and arranged as follows:

'i is a forked arm pivoted to the post 51. It has a projecting arm 52 connected with a spring 40, the opposite end of which is fixed to a point on the brass plate 6. It results from this that the arm '1; is spring-pressed upward. The shaft 2 is geared to the shaft a: by toothed wheels 23 and 24. (Shown in the detail drawing Fig. 4.) On the shaft 2 is fixed a ratchet-Wheel 30. On the same shaft is journaled an arm 26, carrying a dog 28, controlled bya spring 29 and engaging with the teeth of ratchet 30. A link 25 connects the arm 26 with a projection from the pivoted lever 41. When the lever t' is depressed, the spring 40 is extended, the pawl or dog 28 is carried along one or more spaces or teeth of the ratchet 30, and when the aunt is released the spring 40 retracts arm 2', causing the pawl and ratchet to advance shaft .2 and shafts 0c and y, and to thus advance the movable medium m the extent of one picture 1). shaft m is a circular plate or disk d. The disk d on the right-hand end of the shaft 0: has two holes or perforations 33 at diametrically opposite points. A movable pin 34, passing through a hole in the plate 6, Fig. 5, is in position to engage with either hole 33.

35 is a flat spring fixed on plate e, engaging one end of the pin 34 and pressing the other end of said pin againstthe disk (1.

36 is a plate or strip having a slot or opening37.

32 is a pin in the plate e, serving to guide On each end of the the strip 36 and hold it in position, so that it is free to reciprocate up and down under the head of the pin 34.

A rod 38, having a hook at its lower end, extends through an opening 39 in the pivoted lever 7;. The upper end of the strip 36 is bent or turned at 60, as shown in Fig. 2. When the arm 2' is depressed, it engages the hook on the rod 38, drawing the strip 36 downward, and as the bent end at 60 rides upon the plate e the pin 34 is forced outward and the disk d is free to rotate under the propulsive effort of the spring-retracted arm 1'. On its return movement the arm t engages the lower end of the strip 36, sliding the strip upward, the bent portion 60 rides off plate 6, and the spring 35 forces the pin 34 into the next hole 33, thus determining the extent of rotation of the shafts as, y, and z and the movement of the movable medium.

Hooks, like 71, Fig. 4, are placed equidistant at coincident points on the movable medium m,whereby the pictures are supported at their upper edges.

If the weight b employed is an automatic electric cigar lighter, it will constitute a weight of suflicient gravity to depress the arm 1', and when this is used I employ an electric circuit for it, with an automatic switch controlled by the spring-retracted arm 2'. This consists of the fixed contact-points 111 112, connected in the circuit 120 121, and a movable contact 110, fixed to the arm tand operating to make and break electrical connection between the two fixed contacts 111 112.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: Assuming the parts to be in the position shown in Fig. 1, the weight or lighter b is lifted from the hook on the end of the arm 2'. Spring retracts arm ito its extreme elevated position. (Shown in Fig. 2.) The electrical contacts shown at 111 and 112 are connected by contact 110 and circuit is closed. While the lighter b is in use the eyes of the window w. The efiort of the spring 40in retracting the arm i has caused the pawl 28 to engage with the ratchet 30 and furnish motive power for rotating the shafts z, w, and 3 This causes the movable medium 112, bearing the views 4;, to progress one step. The arm i in its downward movement had carried with it the rod 38 and strip 36, so that the strip when its hooked end was upon the plate 8 caused the pin 34 to release the disk d. Upon its return movement the arm 7 had forced the strip 36 upward and left the pin 34 free to engage with the next hole 33 under the influence of the spring 35. The curiosity of the operator will prompt him to repeat the operation of replacing and removing weight b.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination in an advertising device, of a series of toothed wheels arranged in parallel planes at separated points with suitable bearings therefor, a flexible mechanical connection between each pair of wheels, aseries of holding devices or clips fixed on said mechanical connection to removably retain pictures or views, means for advancing said wheels step by step consisting of a pawl and ratchet, a pivoted arm to support said pawl, a spring to retract said arm, a suitable portable weight resting upon said arm to normally flex said spring, a suitable stopping device, consisting of a spring-actuated detent normally engaging one of said wheels, adevice for withdrawing said detent consisting of a sliding arm located between said detentspring and a fixed guide-surface and means for deflecting said arm to withdraw the detent.

CLINTON E. WHITNEY.

Witnesses:

W. B. VANSIZE, A. M. DONLEVY. 

